Week #8: Ethics and Representation


Blog Post #8
Stereotype and the Ethics of Representation

            The representation of African Americans in the book volumes of March move away from a stereotypical portrayal of them that have been used in the past to represent African Americans. The drawings in the novel do not use stereotypical representations by having them being drawn as darker figures in comparison to the other figures. In March, they are drawn as normal people but with slightly darker skin compared to the white people who are drawn into the novel. I think this represents that they truly aren’t that different from each other. The representation of African Americans in the novel is interesting because we also get to see the form of protest that they would practice such as the non-violence sit-ins where they would sit somewhere and if they were asked to leave they would and would refuse to partake in any violence no matter how difficult it was to not react. The reactions of white people to this protest is very interesting because of we know that they had non-violent forms of protest but the people who did not like this would react in such an aggressive and violent way which is something we know has happened on multiple occasions but the reactions seem very extreme. The normal forms of protest that we see when it comes to this subject matter is violent and aggressive but when we see such a small scale and non-violent forms of protest it makes me wonder why do white people have such a violent reaction towards their protests.

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